Improvement in lamp-burners



S. B. WILMDT.

. Lamp-Burners. No.148,794. Patentedmarcmmsm.

. sustain the deflector.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL R. WILMOT, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE VILMOTMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LANiP-BURNERS.`

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,794, dated March17, 1574; application filed February 18, 1874.

[o all whom 'it may concern:

15e it known that I, SAMUEL R.W1LMoT,of Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement inLamp-Burners, of which the following is a speciiication:

This invention consists in a novel construction of the supports whichsustain the deilector, and arrangement of the same relatively with thebase and deiector of the burner, whereby better provision is made forcleaning the base, and the detlector supports and wicktube are made tostiften one another; likewise an extended support is given to thedeilector without interfering with the cleaning of the base. Y

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a side view of alamp-burner constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section of the same on the line a' x, and Fig. 3 a verticalsection thereof.

A is the deilector; B, the wick-tube; and C the air-distributer or baseof the burner, all made of sheet metal in the usual or any suitablemanner. D is the screw body or cup, and E the wick-lifter. F F are thesupports which These supports, which or otherwise.

shaped to conform, for some distance above the base C, to the outeredges or sides of the wick-tube I3, which they receive closely withinthem and serve to brace, and the tube by such arrangement to stiften orbrace them, thereby mutually supporting one another. Abovc Where thesupports F thus embrace the sides of the tube7 they are branched oft',as at b b, to give an extended bearing or support to the dei'lector.

Thisbranching of the supports from a point above the base, instead offrom the base itself, in nowise interferes with the facility forcleaning the base, which the close embracing of the Wick-tube by thesupports, as above described, possesses over or as compared with postsfrom the` base as commonly used; also, said construction and arrangementoi' the supports and their branches contribute materially to the generalstiffness or strength ofthe burner.

I claim-'- In combination with the screw-body D, wicktube B,air-distributer C, and the deflector A, the supports F, connected attheir lower ends to the screw-body D, and extending up along andbranching from the wick-tube to form the arms b for supporting thedeilector, in the manner herein shown and described.

' SAMUEL R. VVILMOT.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. STAPLES, IsAAc C. FowLEn.

